The global awards · 2026
Honouring the defenders of the digital world.
Breaches make the headlines. The people who stop them rarely do. Cyber Security Awards is the independent, global record of who holds the line, judged on merit by an expert panel. When the industry needs to know who to trust, this is the name it turns to.
Most cyber awards reward the biggest marketing budget. This one rewards the work.
Earned, never bought
An independent panel chooses every winner against published criteria. No category is for sale, and no one is sponsored onto the stage.
The whole field
Individuals, teams, products and research. We honour the analyst on the night shift and the disclosure that quietly protected millions.
A global stage
Nominations open worldwide, with no home market and no bias. People defend the digital world everywhere, and the honour follows them.
Last year's winners
The people the 2026 panel honoured across the individual categories, and the organisations recognised alongside them.
“ They didn't make the headlines. They made the breach impossible. ”
Moments from the night
Awards, news & expert voices
The independent record the field reads, and the reference it quotes.
- When AI became the operator: the first autonomous model breakout
- What a penetration test actually proves (and what it doesn't)
- Ransomware in 2026: what defenders changed
- Identity is the new perimeter
- Most cyber awards are bought. This one can’t be.
- How to spot a pay-to-play award
- How the judging panel is assembled
- A decade of the Cyber Security Awards
- How to write a nomination that wins
- Who to put forward, and who gets overlooked
Someone you work with deserves this.
The analyst who never sleeps through an alert. The team that quietly closed the gap. They will not nominate themselves, so that part is on you. When nominations open, it will take ten minutes, and the panel reads every word.
Nominations open soon.